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row of little larger outer canines below, besides inner villif orm band ; 

 single row of fine teeth on vomer and each palatine; interorbital 

 nearly level; hind preopercle edge finely serrated. (Gill rakers 

 8+15, about half of eye, according to Jordan and W. F. Thompson.) 



Scales 47 in lateral line to caudal base and 3 more on latter; 6 

 scales above lateral line, 12 below, 10 predorsal to occiput then many 

 fine ones forward at least opposite front pupil edge; 11 rows on cheek, 

 of which last 3 on preopercle flange. Suprascapula denticulate. 



D. IX, 10, I, fourth spine 2% in total head length, first ray 2%; 

 A. Ill, 7, I, third spine 3i/^, second ray 2I/2; caudal 1%, little 

 emarginate ; least depth of caudal peduncle 3% ; pectoral 1^ ; ventral 



Reddish. Spinous dorsal with dusky border, lower half of anal 

 and hind half of ventral with blackish pigment. Hind part of 

 mouth cleft also blackish. (Steindachner and Doderlein.) 



Japan. Jordan and W. F. Thompson give 335 mm. for their 

 largest example. 



Genus LUTJANUS Bloch 



Lutjanus Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fisohe, vol. 4, pt. 7, 1790, p. 108. Type 

 Lutjatms lutjanus Bloch, tautotypic. 



Lutianus Bloch, Naturg. Ausland. Fische, vol. 4, pt. 7, 1790, pi. 245. Type 

 Lutjanus lutjanus Bloch. 



Turdus (not Linnaeus 1758) Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, ed. Edwards, vol. 

 2, 1771, p. 9. Type Labrus griseus Linnaeus, designated by Jordan 

 and Eveemann, Genera of Fishes, pt. 1, 1917, p. 30. Species nonbinomial. 



Salpa Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, ed. Edwards, vol. 2, 1771, p. 17. Type 

 Sparus synagris Linnaeus, designated by Jordan and Evermann, Genera of 

 Fishes, pt. 1, 1917, p. 30. Prior to Salpa Forskal 1775. Species non- 

 binomial. 



N/aqua Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, p. 17. Atypic. Type Sciaena gibba 

 Forskal, designated by Jordan and Evermann, Genera of Fishes, pt. 1, 

 1917, p. 34. Inadmissible. 



Hobar Forskal, Descript. Animal., 1775, p. 44. Atypic. Type Sciaena bohar 

 Forskal, assumed through vernacular name. Inadmissible. 



Pagrus (Plumier) Lac^p&de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 4, 1803, p. 293. Type Labrus 

 griseus Linnaeus, designated by Jordan and Evermann, Genera of Fishes, 

 pt. 1, 1917, p. 72. Inadmissible. 



Diacopes Cuvier, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1814, p. 89. Type Holocentrus ben- 

 galensis Blooh. 



Diacope Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 1, 1815, p. 360. Type Holo- 

 centrus bengalensis Bloch, designated by Jordan and Evermann, Genera 

 of Fishes, pt. 1, 1917, p. 94. Not Hubner 1816. 



Mesoprion Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 2, 1828, p. 441. Type Lutjanus lut- 

 janus Bloch, designated by Jordan and Evermann, Genera of Fishes, pt. 

 1, 1817, p. 124. 



Genyoroge Cantor, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (Cat. Malayan Fishes), vol. 18, 

 pt. 2, 1849, p. 994. Type Holocentrus bengalensis Bloch, virtually as 

 Genyoroge Cantor proposed to replace Diacope Cuvier. 



Neomaenis Giraed, Rep. U. S. Mexican Bound. Surv., Zool., vol. 10, 1859, p. 18. 

 Type Lobotes emargi/natus (Baird and Girard) Gikaed, monotypie. 



